Word: muralist
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...line, who, she says, wanted to marry her. ("Don't you know that fanatics, if they hate Jews, love to marry Jewish women?") It was from this trip that she came back fully determined to be a professional. Nevelson enrolled at the Art Students League, joined the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera's army of assistants, took up modern dance and worked at her sculpture...
...mechanistic landscapes are in the collections of major museums; of cancer; in Sarasota, Fla. Diego left home at 15 to apply his brushes to everything from inn signs to stage sets. In 1924 he emigrated to the U.S. and worked as a fashion illustrator before achieving success as a muralist. For seven years Diego was married to Burlesque Queen Gypsy Rose...
Many of the artists follow Mexican Muralist José Clemente Orozco's dictum that a mural is not a decorative piece but a screaming public message. In East Los, the message that comes through is pride in the Chicano heritage. One series of 19 murals, called "The Story of Our Struggle," show's events from Mexico's loss of the Southwest in 1848 to a present-day farm unionist cutting the chains that bind a fallen comrade. So well does the series trace the rise of chicanismo that elementary school classes are brought to study the murals...
Died. David Alfaro Siqueiros, 77, flamboyant Mexican muralist and onetime Communist leader; of cancer; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The last survivor of the famed triumvirate of painters who celebrated Mexico's peasant revolution (Jose Clemente Orozco died in 1949, Diego Rivera in 1957), Siqueiros was as noted for his political acts as for his artistic achievements. In the '60s he spent four years in jail for stirring up student demonstrations, and in 1967 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union. Siqueiros' crude, bold, bright murals of historical and revolutionary scenes were sometimes caricature, sometimes...
Died . George Biddle , 88 , portrait painter and muralist who in 1933 helped found the WPA art project that lasted through the 1930s and provided work for such artists as Jackson Pollock, Reginald Marsh and Willem de Kooning; in Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. A Harvard-trainedlawyer whose brother, Francis Biddle, was U.S. Attorney General from 1941 to 1945, Biddle turned to art when he was 26, and became best known for the frescoes he painted in the Department of Justice building in Washington